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  • Three Short Stories in the Abstract Maverick Universe

    Three Short Stories in the Abstract Maverick Universe

    Into the Rain My eyes open. The same ceiling stares back, dripping cold water from the torrential downpour that threatens to flood this sector of the city. A few drops hit my face like Chinese water torture, reminding me that I’m still here, still trapped. My bomber jacket, my companion for the night, reeks of…

  • The Banality of Excuse-Making (and the Ideology Laundromat)

    The Banality of Excuse-Making (and the Ideology Laundromat)

    Here’s the double-bind: mental health is treated as sacred and urgent when it can be used to humanize power after power harms someone… but it is treated as irrelevant, optional, or nonexistent when it would require preventive accountability inside the institution.

  • MK-THIEL: How a Potentially Psychotic Tech Billionaire Inserted “Pedophile Apocalypse” Into Your Personality

    MK-THIEL: How a Potentially Psychotic Tech Billionaire Inserted “Pedophile Apocalypse” Into Your Personality

    If MK-Rogan is the friendly podcast skin over billionaire psychosis, then Peter Thiel is the kernel. Rogan sells you the vibe that these guys are just “interesting, controversial thinkers.” Thiel is one of the people quietly specifying the operating system: what counts as danger, who counts as an enemy, which futures are “allowed,” and who…

  • Maya Jane Coles and the Black Mirror

    Maya Jane Coles and the Black Mirror

    I put on Night Jams Vol. 1 and my nervous system basically exhaled. I’d just been doomscrolling YouTube “popular” music: weaponized thumbnails, dead eyes, K-pop boys in a chrome prison doing precision choreography for a crowd that felt like it was 40% bots and 60% parasocial hunger. Two million likes on stuff that, to my…